good points, I am sympathetic to your points as someone much more pragmatic than Massie, but I also like that there are people who don’t budge on principle.

Take E-verify - the proper solution is that everyone in America is American, not that everyone in America has to enroll on some kind of mega database digital ID system to prove who they are all the time. I mean you could just use the social security number system and stop doling them out to illegals. Massie doesnt want an incremental movement toward digital ID for everything situation. The game is: allow illegals to become a problem so the pre-set solution can be brought in instead of just enforcing the proper system that already exists.

I won't defend anti-tarrifs though, because I am not Massie-levels of purist on that, but the argument is people have a choice, their choices have consequences, let them make informed choices, so have labelling of good make abroad more prominent or something like that. If people want to screw over their own that is a moral failure of people and that should be tackled rather than the availability of cheap goods. But not my position, I just like that someone is willing to be pig headed about it, better that than everyone in lockstep all the time. Sometimes the extremists like Massie can get things "a little bit better" thought out.

I see your point, I get it, but I dont think it fair for Trump to go after someone operating from principle (even if I disagree with the practical outcome of them)